Considerations on COM(2014)304 - Safeguard measures provided for in the Agreement with Norway (codification)

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dossier COM(2014)304 - Safeguard measures provided for in the Agreement with Norway (codification).
document COM(2014)304 EN
date June  9, 2015
 
table>(1)Regulation (EEC) No 1692/73 of the Council (2) has been substantially amended several times (3). In the interests of clarity and rationality, that Regulation should be codified.
(2)An Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Kingdom of Norway (4) (‘the Agreement’) was signed in Brussels on 14 May 1973.

(3)Detailed rules are necessary for implementing the safeguard clauses and precautionary measures provided for in Articles 22 to 27 of the Agreement.

(4)The implementation of the bilateral safeguard clauses of the Agreement requires uniform conditions for the adoption of safeguard measures. Those measures should be adopted in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council (5).

(5)The Commission should adopt immediately applicable implementing acts where, in duly justified cases relating to situations referred to in Articles 24, 24a and 26 of the Agreement or in the case of export aids that have a direct and immediate effect on trade, imperative grounds of urgency so require,